When he went to join the army, his elder brother finally had time to worry about his marriage. He found a girl from a nearby village, got married and had a baby. Just when he thought life was going to get better, he encountered a three-year drought. With Hao Yuanchao's allowance, he was able to get through it. After the three-year disaster, the family was not in trouble, and Hao Yuanchao was ready to shift his attention to his own major life event. Who knew that at this moment, there was a heavy rain and a typhoon in his hometown in the summer. Logically, the Hao family's house was made of bricks and tiles and was not afraid of heavy rain and typhoons. After all, it was some distance away from the sea. It was just affected and would not be blown down by the wind or collapsed by the rain. However, Hao Jianguo had to go to help move the pigs out at night. These pigs were a task assigned by the superiors and had to be raised. There were two pigs in total. Who knew that he would sacrifice his life for these two pigs.
The pig shed was a converted, empty house left behind by a village family that had died. It had fallen into disrepair, and when Hao Jianguo went in to move the pigs, the house suddenly collapsed, burying him. When everyone dug him out, he was dead. His sister-in-law, who was pregnant, went into premature labor upon hearing the news. She cried all night in the delivery room, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and then died.
Suddenly, both adults in the family were gone, leaving behind four children. The eldest was only nine years old, and the youngest was very thin and small. The village party secretary felt guilty. Hao Jianguo lost his property for the village, and indirectly it could be said that his wife also lost her life because of the village. He immediately asked someone to take good care of the newborns. In this era, the neonatal mortality rate is very high. If you are not careful, you may die, especially premature babies who are only seven months old. You have to be more careful. The weather was clear the next afternoon, and he did not dare to delay and rushed the children to the hospital for examination. If the two children were also gone, it would be even more unfair to the Hao couple.
After sending the child to the hospital for examination, he immediately called Hao Yuanchao and informed him of the news.
The bad news stunned Hao Yuanchao, but he was a soldier after all, and had been in the army for so many years. He did not fall into grief. Instead, he immediately asked the village party secretary to help take care of the children, especially the two newborns. He told them not to be afraid of spending money on hospitalization and to keep them alive. He also told him some things and then bought a train ticket back.
Before returning home, he also visited his fiancée, Jiang Shuyao, to tell her the news and his decision. He would raise the four children and bring them to his home because he was their uncle and their closest family member. If he didn't raise them, the four children would likely die. Furthermore, considering how much his eldest brother had sacrificed for him in his early years, he couldn't make the decision to give the children to someone else.
So, after the eighteen-year-old Jiang Shuyao reluctantly sent the people away, she came back and told her parents about it and fell ill. Four children, not one, not two, but four! Two of them were newborn babies who were difficult to raise! Jiang Shuyao felt that her life had suddenly become gloomy. She was not prepared to be a mother at all. Even though she liked Hao Yuanchao, this love did not make her empathize with Hao Yuanchao. She could understand but it was not easy to accept. She was so worried that she fell ill when she slept with the window open at night. Then, Song Shuyao came through.
Song Shuyao had a headache. She had never thought that the time travel in novels and TV shows really existed and happened to her. From the 21st century to the 20th century, even though she was ten years younger, the span of a century made it impossible for her to cheer for her youth, especially when she was faced with such a major choice: to continue the engagement and not give people a chance to talk but still have to raise four children, or to cancel the engagement and face cruel and heartless accusations and rumors.
The rumors were nothing, it was just that the man she was engaged to was a soldier, and in that era, military marriages were not easy to divorce, nor were they easy to cancel. If the man took the initiative to cancel the engagement, it could be explained, but if the woman took the initiative to cancel the engagement, there would probably be considerable resistance. Moreover, she searched her memory and found that the man, Hao Yuanchao, did not tell Jiang Shuyao about canceling the engagement before he left. In other words, it was very likely that Hao Yuanchao was inclined to continue the engagement.
Song Shuyao rubbed her head and thought carefully about the expressions on Hao Yuanchao's face when he and Jiang Shuyao talked about this matter. Suddenly she realized that the face of Hao Yuanchao in her memory seemed vague. She didn't "see" what Hao Yuanchao looked like in her memory at all. She didn't know if it was a bug in the memory transmission or what.
Forget it, don’t think too much about it, just have a good sleep, and if you can’t go back to sleep after waking up, then think about this problem again. Anyway, she is not in the mood to talk about marriage for the time being.
Song Shuyao closed her eyes without caring about anything, and at the moment she fell asleep, a pair of sharp eyes opened on the train to Nanxi Village, like a sword drawn from its sheath.
It is said that the more a mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more satisfied she is. Jiang's mother was angry at first, but she was partial to Hao Yuanchao's sweet words and diligent housework. She suddenly remembered Hao Yuanchao's many advantages before. Now he only has eyes for Jiang Shuyao and he is even competing to wash the dishes. The points she lost because of the child jumped back up, and it only took a day to go from negative points to excellent.
The Jiang family was satisfied and agreed, and the wedding had to be put on the agenda as soon as possible. However, the date was not easy to choose. They had secretly looked for a good date before, but because of the matters concerning Hao Yuanchao's four nephews and nieces, they had not prepared anything. If they followed the original date, it would be too rushed, but they would have to wait another month or two to find another date.
"Let's stick to the original date. We can finish it before work and there's no need to ask for leave." Song Shuyao gave the reason calmly.
Liang Li was even more eager to marry Song Shuyao as soon as possible to prevent her from regretting it halfway or encountering any unexpected changes. However, he was also unwilling to let her down too much, so he thought of getting the marriage certificate first and then finding a time to prepare the wedding banquet.
However, Song Shuyao refused. There was no ceremony for marriage in this era. It was just a meal with relatives and friends, reading the Little Red Book in front of the Chairman's portrait, and arranging some small activities. It was not very interesting. Song Shuyao was not willing to hold such a wedding at all. She would rather get a certificate and be done with it.
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